In order for standards to become the cornerstone of teachers' professional lives, they must first develop a keen understanding of the history and philosophy underlying standards, gain a working familiarity with standards documents, and engage in sense-making experiences that lead to personal meaning or internalization of the standards. This paper describes a professional development workshop framework for assisting both preservice and inservice audiences in gaining confidence in integrating the National Science Education Standards into their teaching practices. (Contains 15 references.) (WRM)